1.Zeus's Birthplace:Zeus is most commonly believed to be born in a cave on Mount Ida on the island of Crete where he took ashore Europa at the beach of Matala. The Cave of Psychro or Diktaean Cave above the Lassithi Plain is also said to be his birthplace.
2.Interesting Fact: Some experts believe that not all the names of Zeus really refer to Zeus, but instead refer to similar gods popular in local areas of Greece. Zeus Kretagenes is the Zeus born on Crete.
3.His mother is Rhea and his father is Kronos; things got off to a rocky start as Kronos, fearful of being usurped, kept eating Rhea's children. Finally, she got wise after giving birth to Zeus and subsituted a swaddled rock for her husband's snack. Zeus conquered his father and freed his siblings, who were still living in Kronos' stomach.
4. Zeus obtained his rule in the heavens and Mount Olympus by conquering his father Cronus/Kronos.
5. Zeus's father was a greedy man who loved being a supreme god. Because of this lust for power he would eat his own children birthed by Rhea - Zeus's mother.
6.Many of Zeus's other children go by the names of: Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Helen, Minos, Muses. Also included in some tales are Ares, Hephaestus , and Hebe.
7. Zeus is also known by such aliases as "the Rain God" and "the Cloud Gatherer". He is said to wield and control bolts of lightnin.
8.Zeus's wife Hera was also his sister. He also had an affair with another sister by the named Demeter; she had a child - Persephone.
Zeus shooting lighting bolts
9.Zeus got rule over the heavens by luck of draw against his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Zeus drew the heavens, while his brother Hades became god of the underworld and Poseidon as god of the sea.
10.Zeus was the 6th child of Cronus and Rhea; the youngest child of the family, but he still got to rule the heavens.
1.Zeus's Birthplace:Zeus is most commonly believed to be born in a cave on Mount Ida on the island of Crete where he took ashore Europa at the beach of Matala. The Cave of Psychro or Diktaean Cave above the Lassithi Plain is also said to be his birthplace.
2.Interesting Fact: Some experts believe that not all the names of Zeus really refer to Zeus, but instead refer to similar gods popular in local areas of Greece. Zeus Kretagenes is the Zeus born on Crete.
3.His mother is Rhea and his father is Kronos; things got off to a rocky start as Kronos, fearful of being usurped, kept eating Rhea's children. Finally, she got wise after giving birth to Zeus and subsituted a swaddled rock for her husband's snack. Zeus conquered his father and freed his siblings, who were still living in Kronos' stomach.
4. Zeus obtained his rule in the heavens and Mount Olympus by conquering his father Cronus/Kronos.
5. Zeus's father was a greedy man who loved being a supreme god. Because of this lust for power he would eat his own children birthed by Rhea - Zeus's mother.
6.Many of Zeus's other children go by the names of: Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Helen, Minos, Muses. Also included in some tales are Ares, Hephaestus , and Hebe.
7. Zeus is also known by such aliases as "the Rain God" and "the Cloud Gatherer". He is said to wield and control bolts of lightnin.
8.Zeus's wife Hera was also his sister. He also had an affair with another sister by the named Demeter; she had a child - Persephone.
10.Zeus was the 6th child of Cronus and Rhea; the youngest child of the family, but he still got to rule the heavens.
Henri's Zeus writing